EXPLAINER: Stellenbosch University rocked by disputes over language policy

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EXPLAINER: Stellenbosch University rocked by disputes over language policy By Lia Snijman

of the case states that Afrikaans would still be used “subject to demand and within the University’s resources”.

Steyn wrote of the “ongoing narrative to discredit Prof De Villiers and Stellenbosch University” that has been taking place in “some of the Afrikaans media” and during the convocation meeting this year. Schreiber said that in resigning, he has “great admiration for Heunis and his colleagues’ commitment to principle”.I had earlier also resigned from the SU’s Institutional Forum because I cannot be complicit in the implementation of a language policy that excludes people on the basis of language, when real multilingual teaching is plainly feasible at SU,” said Schreiber.

He was later approached again, by advocate Jean Meiring this time, and Meiring said it seemed to him that Cameron thought that “at present, a white male should not be appointed as the chancellor of the University”.

 

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